Part 45, page 185

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

TO : SAC, PORTLAND DATE: 7/1/80

FROM : [signature] SAC, ANCHORAGE (164-227)(RUC)

SUBJECT: UNSUB, aka D.B. Cooper CAA-HIJACKING (A) (OO: PD)

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Enclosed for Portland are three rental receipts in the name [REDACTED]

On 6/19/80, [REDACTED] and currently residing at [REDACTED] Fairbanks, Alaska, telephone [REDACTED] contacted SA [REDACTED] at the Fairbanks Resident Agency. [REDACTED] advised that he had information which he believed pertains to captioned matter. He advised that approximately one year after instant hijacking, he sent a letter to the Portland Office of the FBI suggesting that he may have positive information in this matter. He advised he was never contacted regarding this letter and he subsequently wrote a second letter during 1980, shortly after money, believed to be ransom money in this case, was found in the Columbia River near Portland, Oregon.

[REDACTED] advised that he has also not received an answer to the above letter.

[REDACTED] then explained that during 1971, he was a newspaper carrier for the Daily News-Miner at Fairbanks, Alaska. Included on his paper route was the [REDACTED] apartment building located at [REDACTED] Fairbanks, Alaska. [REDACTED] of that apartment building was occupied by a [REDACTED] who he [REDACTED] knew as the [REDACTED] at the F. W. Woolworth store in Fairbanks. [REDACTED] described [REDACTED] as follows:

Sex Male Race Caucasian Age Approximately 31 - 32 Height Approximately 5'10" Build Slender Hair Dark and cut short

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[date stamp] [illegible] 11/[illegible]-81-[illegible] SEARCHED... INDEXED... SERIALIZED... FILED...

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(2) - Portland (Enc. 3) [illegible] 1 - Anchorage

DLM:dml (3)

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DB Cooper-18366 Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings